I concur. I'm French and I avoid French/Spanish servers because they hate using English (which is their choice obviously) and will often kick you without even uttering a word. Sometimes I'm not proud of my nation.

Although I definitely agree with OP on French server experiences, I agree with you on simply avoiding them.

However, in my experience, European servers in general have lower max player limits and an overall lack of communication. On European servers I will play through entire matches of 8v8 without ever hearing a single voice and rarely anything typed on team chat.

On American servers my personal experiences consisted of very interactive team players constantly updating each other. These matches are much more exciting to play and even spectate! My wife will sit and watch an American match, but gets bored and walks away if I'm playing a European one.

You just have to join the right server. The language barrier is detrimental to teamwork & communication on most servers in Europe, and you have to really work on over-communicating to get those guys to actually talk.

But certain servers have regulars that will communicate and joke around all the time which creates an environment where people like to voice-chat. For german players/english-speaking fellas who don't mind hearing a bit german now and then I can recommend the Weasels servers. Lots of players on there who have played on this same server back in NS1.

It's a shame we frenchy are so bad at speaking English. I'm often surprised to see the agressivity against non french speaker while it is obvious that you will need to speak english at some point when playing online and that you should not expect everyone to speak french, even on french servers.

As soon as I have a non french speaker in my team I switch my commandment in English if I lead, and I speak english to teammates, but I am above the average in that regard.

TL;DR: Brazil passed an act that gave young Brazilians a cheap computer and Internet access for free. Free/cheap games get raided by kids being dipshits. Country of people gets ostracized by the online community because of the dipshits.

Amazingly enough, the brazilian NS2 community is actually not too bad! We only have 4 servers around here and most games there is at least two players on the team with mics and the other players actually listen.

Now for every other multiplayer game, I agree that we brazilians are very poorly represented... probably the reason why I gave up Dota 2 completely

Every game has a large French player base, it's crazy. Try playing a game that has died down in popularity and you will notice the French seem to linger for years afterwards, at least in my experience.

It always seems like 8 of the top 10 servers in my refresh queue are French servers. It sucks that I can't just take the best ping server in the list, instead I have to do a 2nd wave of manual filtering to find a GB or DE server.

I know this is late to post, but this is so true. I wouldn't really mind if they spoke English, but I talk to them in English (8 years of French in school didn't teach me how to play video games sadly), and they don't understand.